Habs Mountain Goats Win Snow Camp Triathlon
Summary sentence: News from the Slopes. On the 24–27 January 2024, team Snow Camp were back for the annual Inter-Livery Ski Championships, as the official charity partner for this fantastic event. In recent times, the word GOAT has taken on a new meaning as ‘Greatest Of All Time’, and with this in mind the Haberdashers’ Mountain […]
Haberdashers’ Futures: Real Estate
Our Year 12 Real Estate Conference, part of the Haberdashers’ Advantage: Futures, initiative, brought together industry experts and students for an engaging two-day event. Participants explored emerging trends in real estate, visited key sites across the City of London and Kings Cross, and engaged in meaningful conversations with Haberdashers working in the property sector. Day […]
The Duke of Edinburgh opens Monmouth School
Haberdashers’ Monmouth School celebrated a major milestone today as His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh officially opened the school as a fully co-educational institution. The visit highlighted the school’s commitment to cutting-edge education, supported by world-class facilities and the longstanding connection to the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers’. Warm Welcome and Guard of Honour […]
Message from the Incoming Chair of the Education Committee
As incoming chair of the Education Committee, James Penney looks back on Richard Glover’s tenure and ahead to his own exciting new challenge. It is a privilege and a significant responsibility to take over as Chair of the Education Committee, particularly following in the footsteps of Richard Glover! The past seven years have seen considerable […]
Message from the Outgoing Chair of the Education Committee
Stepping down from the chair of the Company’s Education Committee offers Richard Glover an interesting opportunity to reflect. Thinking back over the last seven years, my principal conclusion is that educationally, across all our school groups, we have become more ‘joined up’. A year or so after I took the chair, we held the first […]
Charities Engagement Evening 2024
Second Haberdashers’ Charities Engagement Evening Builds on Success Following the success of last year’s inaugural event, the Haberdashers’ Charities Engagement Evening returned for its second year, bringing together an impressive cohort of charity leaders with members. The evening began with Sharon Shamir from Feed the Hill speaking about the reality of food poverty in New […]
Cricket Review 2024
Haberdashers’ Cricket XI: Season Review 2024 In many ways, 2024 was another landmark year for Haberdashers’ Cricket. Building on the incredible momentum from 2023, the fixture list expanded to five matches, reflecting the growing player base, camaraderie both on and off the field, and the friendships formed through a shared love of cricket. It was […]
A place of community, worship and welcome
One of the words that kept coming up at the June deputation to the Benefice of Newnham, Awre and Blakeney was community. The sense of community and family was evident, especially when meeting the welcoming parishioners in Newnham and Awre. Some have worshipped in their church over many decades and feel a deep sense of […]
Black Tudors and their links to the Haberdashers’ Company
In her 2017 book ‘Black Tudors: The Untold Story’ Miranda Kaufmann has written a seminal work which challenges the idea that it was only the horrors of late 17th and 18th Century slavery that were the beginning of Africans’ presence in England, and that exploitation and discrimination their only experience. The book takes the […]
Dedication Service for Adams alumni who gave their lives in WWI
Plaque commemorating World War 1 Haberdashers’ Adams alumni unveiled in St. George’s Church, Ypres, Belgium. On Saturday 28 September 2024 a service of dedication for the Haberdashers’ Adams Memorial Plaque was held at St. George’s Memorial Church in Ypres, Belgium. The congregation was made up of students from Years 8, 9, 10 and the Upper […]